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economy. the u.s. economy's crucial. in order for the world to grow. euro has to go so the economy has to continue in this trajectory of stable solid growth and bring down the rate of unemployment. >> rose: do you expect, has the president engage in a different kind of shall we say diplomacy with congress we'll more likely kind a bargain between the republicans and democrats on taxes and spending. >> that's always going to go down to the wire. i wouldn't expect anything before. the question there is whether the negotiates going down to the wire will spook the markets or not. the markets have been remarkably resillient. we went through a sequester deadline. the dow hits an all time high during this. >> rose: why was that? >> because i think the fed trumps everything. money cures all. >> it's all about the fed. i'm a skeptic on the grand bargain. i don't think there's a passing game here. there's going to be a ground game and it's going to be, we're going to go yard by yard and we may get little species of this but the idea everyone's going to come toget
economy. the u.s. economy's crucial. in order for the world to grow. euro has to go so the economy has to continue in this trajectory of stable solid growth and bring down the rate of unemployment. >> rose: do you expect, has the president engage in a different kind of shall we say diplomacy with congress we'll more likely kind a bargain between the republicans and democrats on taxes and spending. >> that's always going to go down to the wire. i wouldn't expect anything before. the...
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we'll be right back and talk about the economy. stay with us. alan krueger is here, he's chairman of the whitehouse council of economic advisors. today he presented the economic report of the president. this is what it looks like. the report found that while much work remains, the economy's healing and moving in the right direction and it could create newed head winds. the sequester was signed in law in march 1st full effect is remain to be seen. all eyes on washington. i'm pleased to have alan krueger back at this table. welcome. >> my pleasure. >> rose: what's the essence of this which is sort of like asking moses of the ten commandments which are the important two. give me the essence of what you discover and you want the american public to know. >> you touched on it. the u.s. economy went through a traumatic period. financial crises was extraordinarily deep. we lost $16 trillion in wealth. but we are digging our way out of this problem. we've regained now almost 15 trillion of the lost wealth. over the last 36 months we've added private sect
we'll be right back and talk about the economy. stay with us. alan krueger is here, he's chairman of the whitehouse council of economic advisors. today he presented the economic report of the president. this is what it looks like. the report found that while much work remains, the economy's healing and moving in the right direction and it could create newed head winds. the sequester was signed in law in march 1st full effect is remain to be seen. all eyes on washington. i'm pleased to have alan...
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economy gets back at a 4% growth rate? >> no, i'm not surprised weaw no sensof that-- at the very beginning of the recovery we got to some 4% numbers. we even hit a five but it got revised down. but it didn't last long, and frankly, we've had very few quarters since the early stages of this recovery that had a 3 evennals the first digit, never mind a four. so four looks like a big stretch, but you're right to use a number like that. in previous overseases, beating four-- recoveries beating four was considered a piece of cake. >> rose: what's hapningn e stk market, david? >> yeah, it's doing very nicely. a few things are happening. one, the corporate sector continues to do pretty well. even though g.d.p. growth has been mediocre, a large portion of that g.d.p. growth is going to the corporate sector instead of work fers a whole variety reasons. so that translates into pretty good corporate profits which in turn translates into good stock prices. the other thing is interest rates are so low by design people are willing to ta
economy gets back at a 4% growth rate? >> no, i'm not surprised weaw no sensof that-- at the very beginning of the recovery we got to some 4% numbers. we even hit a five but it got revised down. but it didn't last long, and frankly, we've had very few quarters since the early stages of this recovery that had a 3 evennals the first digit, never mind a four. so four looks like a big stretch, but you're right to use a number like that. in previous overseases, beating four-- recoveries...
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cyprus has an economy the size of vermont but the assets eight times more than the country's gdp. therein the financial woes come as no surprise to analysts. listen to what alan greenspan said friday. >> europe has been hanging over the american markets for quite a while. the removal of that risk, i think temporarily, i think it is only temporary, has enabled the underlying forces of the market to begin to come into vision. >> and today, the clearer vision that greenspan referred to was clouded the cyprus, we have the report by cyprus matters. >> reporter: cyprus is a smaller island with a smaller economy. but now they're hi
cyprus has an economy the size of vermont but the assets eight times more than the country's gdp. therein the financial woes come as no surprise to analysts. listen to what alan greenspan said friday. >> europe has been hanging over the american markets for quite a while. the removal of that risk, i think temporarily, i think it is only temporary, has enabled the underlying forces of the market to begin to come into vision. >> and today, the clearer vision that greenspan referred to...
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economy. >> we had a couple of huge risks hanging over the global economy for the last year. china had the hard landing, the euro break-
economy. >> we had a couple of huge risks hanging over the global economy for the last year. china had the hard landing, the euro break-
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if we can't economy commitment and assurance which i've made publicly to the american people and to you privately that all options remain on the table, including the prospect which the president, charlie, does not want to do of unilaterally using military force to deal with iran's putative nuclear program. >> rose: so therefore the question is do you have any reason to doubt the president that he believes all other options have failed and iran is about to a year from now get a nuclear weapon and the ability to deliver it that he would not act? plunging markets notwithstanding the >> rising oil prices, a threat to american economic recovery, a generational war with iranians, all of that notwithstanding i believe that if it's unmistakably clear and this that the iranians are breaking out to acquire aweapon that this president will, in fact, use military force. it's not my preferreded option. it clouds the whole option of what the end state would be but i believe, yes he will use military force. >> rose: you agree? >> i think so, too. it's not just about the israelis as well. it's about th
if we can't economy commitment and assurance which i've made publicly to the american people and to you privately that all options remain on the table, including the prospect which the president, charlie, does not want to do of unilaterally using military force to deal with iran's putative nuclear program. >> rose: so therefore the question is do you have any reason to doubt the president that he believes all other options have failed and iran is about to a year from now get a nuclear...
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why don't they stimulate the economy. because of political problems. actually they hesitate but i think that in some way it's german interest and european interest and we need it -- even more -- >> rose: how do you see the u.s. economic recovery. >> better than i was afraid. the last two weeks it was good news. i do hope we go on because when they employ the statistics in the united states, i, you know, i tend to think that we've gone. >> rose: do you think, do europeans admire president obama? >> yes. >> rose: because? >> well, because it shows a symbol of change and novelty. of course they love, they were more in love with the first election than with the second. but still because it's always happening politics. but still more of them another case, you know. there's some sort of familiarity, you know. despite we cannot say -- were the most let's say american president the most interested in europe because it was no, it was far away from europe you know. but he didn't studied in europe, he was not -- >> rose: he spent his time in asia. >> but he's lef
why don't they stimulate the economy. because of political problems. actually they hesitate but i think that in some way it's german interest and european interest and we need it -- even more -- >> rose: how do you see the u.s. economic recovery. >> better than i was afraid. the last two weeks it was good news. i do hope we go on because when they employ the statistics in the united states, i, you know, i tend to think that we've gone. >> rose: do you think, do europeans...